yogen | January mini-event

[Shin can't force him either, so after a second's dithering he heads into the newly unlocked science lab in search of a clean unused beaker he can wash the dust off and put some tap water in, because he doesn't want to go too far. He gets back just in time to see Miyuki smack the door, his own small jolt at it creating ripples in the water.]

Here...

[He'll hold it out... holding it against Miyuki's lower arm in the way that's his habit for handing people things now.]

...

[He fidgets with his scarf, looking away. He doesn't know Miyuki well, even as he's clearly upset. Does he even say anything? Can anything be said to this at all?]

...The others should... probably know, huh? C-can I borrow your PDA for a second?

[ It barely registers before he can finally meekly hold onto the beaker. Processing this felt impossible in the moment, and he has to somehow, some way, regain his composure. Even in this place... he's a member of the student council. He's supposed to show determination and leadership in his role.

He finally steps away from the door, reaching into his pocket and fishing out his PDA, staring down at it. ]

I... they should, hear it from me, shouldn't they? That Arisu--

[ He forces himself to take a drink of water, and continue his measured breaths. ]

Sorry, I... I don't know what to do.

[ For once, he can't think of a proper solution to this. ]

...I'll do for you.

[He probably can't mimic Miyuki well, but it would at least be in his name? Mostly it's Shin not wanting to use his own if he can help it. He's holding out his hand, but he'll pull it back if not taken up on.

...

He's seen this kind of responsibility break someone before. He exhales, long, as the situation really starts to sink in.]

Don't worry about it. ...Ahaha, consider it delegation.

[It's not like he really knows what to do either but... he has at least seen this before... Can share the load a little.]

Edited (minor tweak) 2022-01-13 04:06 (UTC)

...

[ With everything that's been going on... honestly. There's not much of a choice on his end.

Miyuki hands over his PDA. ]

If you could. I'm not going to be much help at the moment. I... I'll hang out here, in front of the door until I'm ready.

[ Ready for what, he has no idea. ]

I-It's fine... I'll keep you updated.

[He'll take the PDA and settle in place leaning against the side of the wall texting for a bit, face and frown half-buried in scarf, blood draining from his face as the response occurs and then a breath of relief as... Komaeda... seems to have it handled.

He looks down at the screen and turns it off, and then looks at the door to the room the same way someone regards a ceiling high pile of dishes except with the element that that's a dead person in there. He really doesn't want to go in, but... he passes the device back to Miyuki.]

Here... I'm... gonna head inside and see if there's any... clues, or something.

[He's darting in neat as you like, no need for Miyuki to see any more of the body than he needs to.]

Shin will return to the room to find it as he left it. There is blood in the room underneath the body. The room contains tables and chairs, a chalkboard, announcement equipment, and four filing cabinets that are currently inaccessible.

What would he like to check first?

First thing I guess is crane his neck up and see if the blood's coming just from the nails being in there or if there's a larger visible wound of some kind, scarf being held against his mouth and nose in a futile attempt to block out the smell.

Soso tempted to touch the announcement equipment but after the disaster on the network Shin's a little reluctant to broadcast on the tannoy even if no one else is here yet - is there anything written on the chalkboard though?

The blood is coming from the nails pinning her in place, which are primarily scattered about her joints. There are no other visible injuries.

There is nothing written on the chalkboard; it's been wiped clean.

He doesn't know about a certain lantern's blackboard revealing properties, but he can still wish he had it.

The horrifying possibility approaches that she might actually be still alive despite all this, so is she still breathing?

He's also going to drag a table under but not in the way of the blood drip under so that he can stand on it for a closer look.

The body is completely still. There is no rise and fall of the chest, or anything else that might indicate that she is still breathing. The dripping blood seems to be coming to a stop.

Okay thank god on that one.

After a furious internal debate on if he should leave the body where it is for someone who knows bodies and also can get her off the ceiling without dying themselves, he's going to extremely reluctantly take another photo of her as she is before standing on the desk and gingerly trying to pull one of her hands free, wincing at the blood.

What kind of nails are we talking about here?

They're galavanized framing nails, though that won't be obvious from looking at them. They're stuck in pretty well, so he'll have to yank her hand through the nail itself in order to get her hand off.

Yeah he's... not doing that... he'll check the fingernails of the hand for blood underneath, because he knows that much from detective games and also his own almost-death not too long ago, before letting go and taking a step back and thinking.

Clearly he needs a hammer or something. Actually speaking of, the person who did this would also need something like that, right? Unless they were freakishly pushing them in with a finger or something, anything goes in this weird school.

He's going to hop down and check the surroundings for a hammer or nailgun or signs thereof. It's also occuring to him it's weird he's not being sent to the voidschool with every drop of blood.

There is no blood on or under the fingernails. There are no odd marks on her neck that indicate she was scratching at it either. However, Shin might notice that there are bumps on her skin.

It will take a little bit of looking, but Shin will find a bloody hammer tucked between two filing cabinets. There is rust on the cabinets themselves. There are stands of blond hair in the vicinity.

Retroactively, what kind of bumps are we talking? Like mosquito bites, blisters, how many of them? Are they just on the hand? While I'm rewinding back in time, how many tallies did she have?

He's got some time, they get a whole three hours and all, luxury... Aha, he knew it... also does no one ever use these filing cabinets? Resigning himself to his role as crime scene photographer he's going to take pics of these as well, before taking a couple of the blond strands, contemplating them between finger and thumb.

Hair... he does actually know you can distinguish fibres with fire; one of the many odd pieces of trivia Midori always seemed to know that definitely now sours in hindsight. But it is useful, so he's going to run a strand of both the orange and blond hairs under blue lighter flame and see what happens.

There are blisters on her skin, and they're all over her body. Shin will notice them anywhere there is exposed skin. She has three tallies in total.

The cabinets are currently inaccessible, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't used. Regardless of whether or not they are, they seem to have started to rust over and erode.

Midori would be proud of Shin, knowing that he taught him well, and also laughing at him and telling him to find the truth for himself while knowing the answer like two minutes in like the freak that he is. Unfortunately, he's not here to be useful (or useless,) and Shin will find that the hair burns normally and presumably smells terrible upon doing so.

Inch resting, what's their size and shape like, as far as the exposed skin goes? Do they form a particular pattern, are they rounded or more splotch-like? That is, do they look like they were caused by abrasion, burns, or illness? Not that Shin is a doctor, exactly, but like the camera lens he's been using he can make observations.

God he's insufferable why did Shin put up with him (we all know why) it's almost like he's here in the room. Shin's going to ignore the phantom laughter and after crinkling his nose at the acrid smell (yeah that's... burnt hair alright), put the lighter and half-burnt hairs back in his pocket.

'Currently inaccessible' is ominous as hell, he can rattle them a bit trying to open one, and kick a rusted part a lil and regret it because ow his foot bad idea, he's doing the brief jumping up and down on the spot holding it thing, eyes watering.

It's inconsistent, but there are splotches of skin that range from red and irritated to blistered and peeling skin. It's not unlike the look one might have after a scalding hot shower, with the boiling water only touching parts of the skin, except no part of her is damp.

As an aside, whatever is in the cabinets isn't relevant to the investigation; they're noted as currently inaccessible on the locations page.

It's good to be thorough! Going back in time to finding the hammer, how bloody are we talking, like is it on the head, or the handle as well? Actually does it have one of those nail pryer ends or is it double-sided?

Also huh, okay, weird. Clearly a lot happened in these six hours.

After recovering from that, Shin's going to test something that's been percolating at the back of his mind, taking out his bandage-wrapped knife and a thin sliver of mirror that he uses for void trips. He hasn't been doing it as much lately (not at all since coming back this month), but it's still a practiced move of pricking the side of his finger and holding the bead of blood upright while he puts the knife back. He nervously takes the shard in both hands ready to snap it, and that rotation lets the bead fall.

The hammer is the type with a claw on the head. The head is bloody, with the face and neck being caked with dried blood. The handle has a small amount of splatter on it, but the bulk seems to be on the head and around the top where it attaches to the handle.

Once the blood hits the ground the floor will disappear, and Shin will find that there's nothing but pool of black beneath him.

SNAPPING THE MIRROR GO GO GET OUT THIS WAS A BAD IDEA WHY DID HE TRY THIS

(actually wait to double check is he in the void-void or just a normal voidschool room with No Floor)

Edited (a small thought) 2022-01-14 23:59 (UTC)

It is the void-void! The student council room has been eaten by it. He will snap the mirror and find himself back in the Student Council Room.

Okay phew, he is back. Just going to stand here and deal with his body freaking out over freaking out suddenly from it's perspective and that just happening from his own and then shakily put the mirror back and wipe his finger on his jacket until it stops bleeding that much. So it's just Maya's blood not doing that. Maybe student council is built different, who knows, or it's just anyone murdered during that time. Mysteries.

He looks at the hammer and back at... the corpse but... wouldn't that have fingerprints on it? Maybe he should leave it (despite that they don't exactly have a fingerprint database in Yogen). Instead he's going to get back on the desk and tentatively search her pockets, since he doesn't have Crona to pre-search them this time. Maybe there's some kind of hint about what the meeting was about?

Shin will find her house keys, her PDA, and Maya's student council room key in her pockets. There might be a couple other little odds and ends, but nothing else of note.

He and Sara are now neck and neck on house keys. He does look at her PDA and it's siren call of pretending to be Maya so that Hiro gets some closure but... well he can at least see what's happened while he's been investigating.

...okay it's clear that Hiro has worked it out and 'this is necessary' doesn't bode well. Best not to touch it... Shin doesn't trust himself after this disaster and Natsume's sharp retort way back and... he does know now, the kind of anger you get at a sibling's death. He can't think of anything he'd say to himself that'd help right now, especially knowing she's dead. He's just... going to turn off the PDA and pocket everything, forgetting that the ping is going to come up as 'read' possibly, I can't remember if the network does that or not.

I know it says 'currently inaccessible' but hope springs eternal when you can't see the location page so he'd try to use the student council room key on the filing cabinets if they have a lock anyway.

After that doesn't work, he's going to look at the floor for signs she was dragged here, because he doesn't think she'd have just held still for this if she was awake... and also, looking at the table he's moved to get to her, if there's marks of the others having been moved for the same but more evil reason; especially if there's blood on top of any from this process. The person had to have gotten some on them, so is there any of that on the floor that's not just from the dripping, as well?

Edited (another thought) 2022-01-15 03:22 (UTC)

01/12 06:00

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